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| August 31, 2006 | Thursday | Sha'aban 6, 1427 |
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Kohlu killings spark NA fury: Adjournment motion debate today
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: The government on Wednesday accepted an opposition’s demand to hold a debate in the National Assembly on Thursday on the killing of Jamhoori Watan Party chief Nawab Akbar... 
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Highways blocked; Quetta calm but tense
QUETTA, Aug 30: Activists of the four-party Baloch Alliance blocked highways in the province to protest against the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti while Quetta remained calm but tense on Wednesday....
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Armymen clear cave rubble amid stench
TARTANI (Kahan Tehsil), Aug 30: An overpowering stench of decomposing bodies hung in the air on Wednesday as army engineers sought to clear the rubble of the remote cave, reportedly Nawab...
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Bugti’s sons rattled by ‘govt pressure’
KARACHI, Aug 30: Government sleuths on Wednesday piled pressure on the grieving sons of Nawab Akbar Bugti and asked them to make a hasty trek to the Kohlu district apparently to...
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NA body reviews Hudood bill: Consensus on 10 clauses: minister
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: The select committee of the National Assembly on the Criminal Law Amendment (Protection of Women) Act 2006, tabled by the government in the National Assembly on Aug 21,...
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‘MMA may quit Balochistan govt’
PESHAWAR, Aug 30: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad has hinted that the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal may part ways with the Balochistan coalition government in view of the situation in the province....
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77 killed in Iraq attacks
BAGHDAD, Aug 30: Insurgents killed at least 77 Iraqis and wounded scores in a series of shootings and bombings on Wednesday, including one in a crowded Baghdad market and another at a military recruitment centre....
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Big Three oppose sanctions on Iran
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 30: China, Russia and France have cautioned against any rush to impose sanctions on Tehran as the UN Security Council’s deadline (Aug 31) on Tehran to end its nuclear programme neared....
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Sherpao says Section 144 to remain in force
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao has aid that Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code will remain enforced in Balochistan till the conclusion of the ongoing operation against miscreants involved in destroying national assets....
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PM starts four-nation visit
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz left here on Wednesday on a five-day four-nation visit to Norway, United Kingdom, Turkey and Lebanon. The prime minister in his whistle stop tour...
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‘Disappearances rise with war on terror’
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: Several hundred people in Pakistan have disappeared, apparently taken into detention in connection with the war on terrorism, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday....
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Journalist’s brother killed in Wana
TANK, Aug 30: A 14-year-old brother of Dilawar Khan Wazir, correspondent of Daily Dawn and BBC Urdu Service in the South Waziristan Agency, was killed by unidentified assailants in Wana on Wednesday....
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First ODI in Cardiff washed out
CARDIFF, Aug 30: Rain meant the first, day/night, one-day international of a five-match series between England and Pakistan ended in a no-result at Sophia Gardens here on Wednesday....
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Musharraf to visit Kabul next week
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will travel to Afghanistan next week for talks with his counterpart, Hamid Karzai, a government official said Wednesday....
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Egypt’s Nobel writer Naguib Mahfuz dies
CAIRO, Aug 30: Naguib Mahfuz, Egypt’s most celebrated author and the only Arab to win the Nobel literature prize, died on Wednesday at the age of 94, several weeks after his health suddenly deteriorated....
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India unveils arms procurement policy
NEW DELHI, Aug 30: Indian government on Wednesday unveiled new weapons procurement procedures reintroducing a modified fast-track process and making field trials of weapons systems more transparent....
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Kashmiris hold protest for missing kin
SRINAGAR, Aug 30: Dozens of Kashmiris staged a sit-in protest on Wednesday to mark the International Day of the Disappeared and appealed to authorities to provide information about missing relatives....
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China, Pakistan to launch 3 satellites: Cooperation may also cover cyber-security
BEIJING, Aug 30: China will work with Pakistan to launch three earth resource satellites over the next five years. Officials on Wednesday said that relevant institutions of the two counties had...
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